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DANIEL HUNTINGTON
(Wiki) Daniel Huntington (October 4, 1816 – April 19, 1906), American artist, was born in New York City, New York, the son of Benjamin Huntington, Jr. and Faith Trumbull Huntington; his paternal grandfather was Benjamin Huntington, delegate at the Second Continental Congress and first U.S. Representative from Connecticut.

He studied at Yale with Samuel F.B. Morse, and later with Henry Inman (painter). From 1833 to 1835 he transferred to Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, where he met Charles Loring Elliott, who encouraged him to become an artist. He first exhibited his work at the National Academy of Design in 1836. Subsequently he painted some landscapes in the tradition of the Hudson River School. Huntington made several trips to Europe, the first in 1839 traveling to England, Rome, Florence and Paris with his friend and pupil Henry Peters Gray. On his return to America in 1840, he painted his allegorical painting “Mercy’s Dream”, which brought him fame and confirmed his interest in inspirational subjects. He also painted portraits and began the illustration of The Pilgrim’s Progress. In 1844, he went back to Rome. Returning to New York around 1846, he devoted his time chiefly to portrait-painting, although he painted many genre, religious and historical subjects.[1] From 1851 to 1859 he was in England. He was president of the National Academy of Design from 1862 to 1870, and again in 1877-1890.[1] He was also vice president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.[2]
The REPUBLICAN COURT: Reception of Mrs Washington

(Jay Heritage Center Collection) The line and stipple engraving above is one of several recent gifts made to the Jay Heritage Center this month. The antique print was produced by A.H. Ritchie in 1867 and based on the original 1861 painting by Daniel Huntington titled “The Republican Court.” Huntington’s painting, was completed at the beginning of the Civil War; the scene harkened back to what was seen in hindsight as a more harmonious time between the states — the founding of our union –and it represented an idealized assembly of the leaders of that period (Northern and Southern) in a European, court like setting. The image prominently features John Jay, John Adams and Alexander Hamilton on the left, Martha Washington on the dais, Thomas Jefferson and George Washington center ground and Sarah Livingston Jay on the far right and many other familiar personages of the Revolutionary War.

Daniel Huntington (1816 – 1906) won acclaim and prominence as the favored portraitist of New York Society after the Civil War. Though he was equally skilled at genre works and Hudson River style landscapes, he is best known for his likenesses of presidents, statesmen and other distinguished Americans including his painting of Abraham Lincoln that hangs at the Union League Club in Manhattan where the Jays were also members. Huntington’s training included studying with Jay family colleagues like John Trumbull (who is pictured in the engraving above), and Samuel F. B. Morse, then president of the National Academy of Design, whose successful career as an artist preceded his renown as an inventor. Huntington’s leadership roles in the artistic community were many: he was a member of the National Academy of Design for most of his life and served as its president for 22 years (1862 – 1870; 1877 – 1891). He was a founder and president of the Century Association and as vice-president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art for 33 years, he helped that institution expand and grow in stature. Differentiating it from the painting, the popular steel engraving was retitled “Lady Washington’s Reception” and a key identifying each of the 64 individuals shown was printed in magazines and newspapers of the time.

Daniel Huntington turned to portraiture painting late in his career and painted the portraits of many individuals. Part of this was portraits of relatives of John Jay painted between 1860 and 1880. This included portraits of John Clarkson Jay, Laura Prime Jay, with child, (Mrs John Clarkson Jay), Dr Henry Augustus Du Bois, Constance Fielder Bruen, (Mrs Alexander Bruen ), Eleanore Kingsland Field Jay (Mrs John Jay, II), Alice Jay, Frederick Prime, and William Jay. It also includes one miniature, probably painted after Sarah Livingston Jay death based on an existing miniature

SARAH LIVINGSTON JAY

Artist: Daniel Huntington(1816-1906)

SARAH LIVINGSTON JAY (jj4/1)

Sarah Livingston Jay, was a charming, warm, intelligent woman, who loved to entertain and give parties. She provided a needed balance to John Jay, who was serious and ponderous. When John Jay was sent to Spain during the Revolution, they sailed with the French Ambassador who was a very difficult person. A storm crippled the vessel and they floated in the Atlantic awaiting rescue. Mrs. Jay learned that it was the Ambassador’s birthday and opened her baggage trunks to break out a Gala for him! While in Paris she became good friends with the Marquise de Lafayette and because of similarity of looks was often mistaken for her. The Paris Opera audience once rose to its feet thinking on her entrance that Mrs. Jay was Queen. Before she left Paris the Marquise gave her clothing that she wore when she entertained on her return to New York. This apparently upset many of the ladies of New York, who could not compete with her finery. Her “salon” became a place to be seen, and her guests included the Beekmans, the Clarksons, the Stirlings, the de Peysters, the Van Cortlands, the Rutherfords, the Van Rensselaers, and the Ralph Izards. She died at age 45, on May 28,1802, just before the completion of their retirement home in Katonah. The list of arrangements for her funeral included as guests, in addition to the family, almost every important family name in New York. She was buried in the Family Vault in the Bowerie and her remains later removed to the Jay Cemetery plot

MARY RUTHERFURD CLARKSON JAY

Artist: Daniel Huntington

Mary Clarkson was the only child of General Matthew Clarkson and Mary RUTHERFURD. She married Peter Augustus Jay, the oldest son of John Jay and Sarah Livingston. They had seven children almost all or their spouses were also painted by Daniel Huntington!

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Frick Digital Archive Collection

Artist: Daniel Huntington Medium: Pastel Comment: Photograph of original oil on canvas in the John Jay Collection, La Jolla, San Diego, Califonia, USA

He was the son of Peter A. Jay and grandson of Founding Father John Jay, diplomat, first Chief Justice of the United States and two time Governor of New York State. J. C. Jay graduated from his father and grandfather’s alma mater Columbia in 1827, and from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1831. In addition to his practice of medicine, he made a specialty of conchology, and acquired the most complete and valuable collection of shells in the United States.[1] This and his costly library on this branch of science were purchased by Catherine Wolfe and presented, in memory of her father, to the American Museum of Natural History, where it is known as the Jay Collection.

He married Laura Prime (1812-1888) and they had seven children that lived to adulthood. Laura Prime’s father was Nathaniel Prime, a prominent NY banker and one of the wealthiest men in the colony. Her brother Frederick Prime married Mary Rutherfurd Jay, John Clarkson Jay’s sister.
After the death of his father in 1848, when he was 35 years of age, he moved from his home in New York City on Bond Street to the house in Rye, that his father had rebuilt and lived there with his wife Laura for the rest of his life.

ALICE JAY daughter of John Clarkson Jay

Artist: Daniel Huntington, 1816-1906

Sitter: Alice Jay. Date about 1900. Oil on canvas. Given to the Jay Heritage Center in 2012.

Written by Suzanne Clary

The Jay Heritage Center (JHC) recently received an extraordinary gift from one of John Jay’s descendants. In celebration of the continued restoration of the 1838 Jay House in Rye, Ada Hastings of Great Barrington, Massachusetts and her family magnanimously donated a portrait of John Jay’s great granddaughter that once hung in the mansion’s Drawing Room. The painting will be unveiled to the public for the first time on May 15, 2011.
The luminescent painting of a young Alice Jay by pre-eminent artist Daniel Huntington is documented in sepia toned family photos from 1886; it is visible hanging in a prominent location next to two other famous artworks originally owned by the Jays of Rye: Gilbert Stuart’s portrait of John Jay (which today is on view at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C.) and Asher Durand’s depiction of Peter Augustus Jay (which belongs to New York Hospital where Peter Augustus Jay served as President of the Board.)

The young subject of the painting, Alice Jay, along with her parents and siblings, lived both in New York and at the Rye estate during the mid and late 19th century. Windows into Alice’s life and times, particularly during the Civil War, are well documented in family letters and diaries. Alice’s father, Dr. John Clarkson Jay, was John Jay’s grandson and a vocal opponent of slavery like his grandfather and father before him. Through the local Episcopal church where he served on the vestry, he was instrumental in spearheading efforts in Rye to recruit volunteers for the Union efforts during the Civil War, a campaign which drew enlistments from Alice’s two older brothers, Peter, who became Captain of a local militia, and John, who served as an assistant surgeon. Alice’s sister kept a diary in which she wrote proudly in 1862, “Rye is called the banner town of the county for she has raised more men by volunteering than any of the other towns.”

Henry Augustus was the fourth child of Cornelius and Sarah Ogden Du Bois. He was educated in Paris and then went to College of Physicians and Surgeons for his M.D. He returned to France to study medicine and then returned to New York in 1834, a year before he was married to Catharine Helena Jay, the grand daughter of John Jay. He practiced in New York until 1840, and because of poor health retired. His father inherited land between the banks of the Mahoning River in Ohio and they were involved with the settlement of a new community, Newton Falls. During this time he was president of the Virginia Channel Coal Co. They moved back to New Haven in 1854, where he lived until he died at age 76. They were both buried in the Jay Cemetery.

ANNA MARIA JAY married Henry Evelyn PIERREPONT

Artist: Daniel Huntington 1816-1906

Sitter: Anna Maria Jay PIERREPONT, oil on canvas, given to the Jay Heritage Center June 2015

ANNA MARIA JAY** Birth 12 Sep 1819 in New York City, New York, Death 2 Jan 1902 in Brooklyn, Kings, New York, married HENRY EVELYN PIERPONT Birth 8 Aug 1808 in Brooklyn, Kings, New York, Death 28 Mar 1888 in Brooklyn, Kings, New York, They had six children.

Henry Evelyn Pierrepont:The second son of Hezekiah Beers and Anna Maria Constable Pierrepont, Henry Evelyn was born in Brooklyn on August 8, 1808. Henry Evelyn was educated in New York City and quickly acquired his father’s prominence among Brooklyn’s elite. Upon the death of H.B. Pierpont, William Constable, the eldest Pierrepont son, took over the family’s upstate properties while Henry Evelyn remained in Brooklyn, maintaining the family’s influence on, and commitment to, the city’s development. On December 1, 1841, Henry Evelyn married Anna Maria Jay, daughter of Peter Augustus Jay and Mary Rutherford Clarkson, and granddaughter of John Jay, governor of New York (1795-1801) and the first Chief Justice of the United States. Together the couple had six children, including Henry Evelyn Pierrepont II and John Jay Pierrepont.

Sitter: Frederick Prime oil on canvas. At the Jay Homestead in Bedford, NY

Frederick I. Prime, a Son of Nathaniel Prime and Owner of Edgewood Frederick I. Prime attended Yale, studied law and was admitted to the bar of the State of New York as a young man. He married his first wife, Mary Rutherfurd Jay, and entered practice with her father, his new father-in-law, Peter A. Jay who served as Recorder of New York City. Frederick and Mary Prime had three children before Mary died on September 9, 1835. (She is buried in the Jay Graveyard in Rye, New York.) Their children were Mary Rutherford Prime, born in New York on August 24, 1830; Harriet Prime, born in New York on September 11, 1832; and Helen Jay Prime, born in New York on August 22, 1835. Frederick Prime’s wife, Mary Prime, died only eighteen days after the couple’s third child was born.

MRS JOHN JAY, II (Eleanor Field) married JOHN JAY, II

Artist: Daniel Huntington, 1816-1906

Sitter: Mrs John Jay, II wife of JJ II, oil on canvas, hangs at the Jay Homestead in Bedford.

Eleanor Kingsland Field was the daughter of Hickson Field, of New York. She married John Jay II in 1837. The miniature she wears on the bracelet on her left arm is said to be that of her son, William Jay (1841-1915).
bio: John Jay II was a man of several occupations including diplomat, abolitionist, farmer, lawyer and public service. He was a member of the Jay family, one of the most prominent in New York State and American history. John was very devoted to many causes along with having a strong moral compass, great integrity and a gentle persona. He was born in 1817. John was the third of eight children born to William and August McVickar Jay and a grandson of John Jay, the first Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He was raised with five sisters while another brother and sister died very young and enjoyed a childhood of privilege and happiness. As his father and grandfather before him, John also received a classical education in the highest tradition. When John was fifteen, he began studies at Columbia College in New York City and ranked second in the class of 1836. He began legal studies in New York City after graduation and entered the bar in 1839. John practiced law for the next nineteen years until his father’s death in 1858. After retiring from his law practice, he pursued his favorite causes and ran the family businesses. John provided a life of comfort and ease for his family. He married Eleanor Kingsland Field, a strong willed woman, in June 1837 at the Jay home in Bedford, New York. They enjoyed 57 years of marriagealong with a “Jaybilee,” a celebration of their fiftieth wedding anniversary.

CONSTANCE FIELDER BRUEN

Artist: Daniel Huntington. 1816-1906

Sitter: Mrs Alexander Jay BRUEN, oil on canvas.

The testatrix gives her family sliver and portraits to her children which includes a portrait of herself bv Huntington, the_ Jay„ silver, aqd “the”port rait of her father and mother. WHHam Jay and Augusta J

He was born in New York City, and graduated from Yale in 1808. After his graduation, he took up the management of his father’s large estate in Westchester County, New York, and also studied law at Albany. Poor eyesight soon compelled him to give up the legal profession. He early became interested in various philanthropic enterprises and reforms and identified himself especially with the temperance, antislavery, and antiwar movements. He was one of the founders (in 1816) of the American Bible Society, which he defended against the vigorous attacks of the High Church party, led by Bishop Hobart. He was judge of common pleas in New York from 1818 to 1820, and was first judge of Westchester County from 1820 to 1842, when he was removed on account of his antislavery views.

“(Wiki bio)He was born in New York City, and graduated from Yale in 1808. After his graduation, he took up the management of his father’s large estate in Westchester County, New York, and also studied law at Albany. Poor eyesight soon compelled him to give up the legal profession. He early became interested in various philanthropic enterprises and reforms and identified himself especially with the temperance, antislavery, and antiwar movements. He was one of the founders (in 1816) of the American Bible Society, which he defended against the vigorous attacks of the High Church party, led by Bishop Hobart. He was judge of common pleas in New York from 1818 to 1820, and was first judge of Westchester County from 1820 to 1842, when he was removed on account of his antislavery views.

An enthusiastic member of the American Antislavery Society, whose constitution he drafted, Jay stood with Birney at the head of the conservative abolitionists, and by his calm, logical, and judicial writings exerted for many years a powerful influence. From 1835 to 1837 he was the society’s corresponding foreign secretary. In 1840, however, when the society began to advocate measures which he deemed too radical, he withdrew his membership, but with his pen he continued his labor on behalf of the slave, urging emancipation in the District of Columbia and the exclusion of slavery from the territories, though deprecating any attempt to interfere with slavery in the states. He was also a proponent of antiwar theories and was for many years president of the Peace Society. His pamphlet War and Peace: the Evils of the First with a Plan for Securing the Last, advocating international arbitration, was published by the English Peace Society in 1842, and is said to have contributed to the promulgation, by the powers signing the Treaty of Paris in 1856, of a protocol expressing the wish that nations, before resorting to arms, should have recourse to the good offices of a friendly power.

Jay was married with 8 children, all but 2 survived to adulthood. These included the lawyer John Jay (1817-1894), Anna Jay Balch, Maria Jay Butterworth, Sarah Louisa Jay Bruen and Augusta Jay Pellew.[citation needed]”

Sarah Louisa Jay was the fourth child and third female descendant of William and Hannah Jay. She was brought up in Bedford. In 1840 at age 21 she married Alexander Bruen and after time in New York moved to Scarsdale. They had three children. They were both buried in the Jay Cemetery in Rye.

“The old mansion, which has long since disappeared, was constructed in the French chateau style, and commanded splendid views of the surrounding country. The property, after Mr. Cooper’s death, was sold by Mr. Cooper’s children to Alexander McWhorter Bruen, M.D., who married Sarah Louisa Jay, third daughter of the Hon. William Jay, of Bedford. The Bruens descend from a family of that name, formerly seated at Bruen, Stapleford, Cheshire, England. Robert Le Bruen, of that place, in 12 30, was the ancestor of the celebrated John Bruen, Esquire,5 of Bruen, Stapleford, who was born in 1560, and died 162 5. His son, Obadiah Bruen, was entered a freeman of Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts, in 1640, Before 1650, he was chosen seven times deputy to the General Court, from Gloucester. From the latter place he removed to New London. In the charter of Connecticut, granted by Charles II., his name appears as one of the patentees of the Colony. From New London he removed in 1667, with his son John to Milford (now the city of Newark, New Jersey). John, his son, left Eleazer the father of Eleazer the grandfather of Matthias Bruen, Esq., father of the present Alexander M. Bruen, M.D., of Scarsdale.”

MRS. ALEXANDER M. BRUEN PASSES QUIETLY AWAY. (obit)Louisa Jay Bruen, widow of Dr. Alexander M Bruen, died at her home on Mamaroneck Road on Sun November 6th, aged ninety. The funeral which was held In the , Constable Memorial Church at Mamaroneck, two o’clock yesterday afternoon. Interment was made in the Jay family burial ground on the Jay Estate at Rye, where her husband also Is buried. Mrs. Bruen’s husband, Dr. Alexander M. Bruen, who was well known In New York and Washington, died In 1886. She was a sister of the late John Jay and a granddaughter of Chief Justice John Jay. Besides a sister, Mrs. Henry E. Pettew of , Washington, she leaves three children, Alexander Jay Bruen, William’ Livingston Bruen and Mrs. Ide, wife of Rear Admiral George E. Ide, retired. She was an aunt of Colonel William jay and Mrae. von Schwelnltz, wife of General von Schweinitf, formerly German Ambassador to Austria. . Mrs. Bruen’s father. Judge William Jay, whose home was at Bedford, N. Y., was an eminent jurist, author and philanthropist. Her mother was Miss Augusta McVicker daughter of John McVicker, of Bedford.” Dr. Bruen bought the property on the Mamaroneck Road about the time of their marriage. The house in which JF Cooper lived when he wrote the Spy, was then on the site of the present house which Dr. Bruen built, and which has been 4he family home ever since. Dr. and Mrs. Bruen at one time spent a large part of their time in Washington, D. C. A few years ago Mrs. Bruen established a home for old people and children, and gave them the use of the Washington house. This benevolence she has since maintained. About two years ago Mrs. Bruen suffered a stroke of paralysis which affected the eyelids so that she could not keep them open, rendering her practically blind. In spite of her age she Was in the habit of walking and driving about a great deal, until a month ago, when she became unable to leave the house. She was not, however, kept abed and was , drinking her coffee Sunday morning, when she died. The family have the sympathy of a large circle of friends, in their bereavement —(Scarsdale Inquirer Nov 1905)

Fifth Generation: Children of LOUISA JAY and ALEXANDER McVICKER BRUEN

1. ALEXANDRA LOUISA BRUEN married Rear Admiral GEORGE ELMORE IDE

2. ALEXANDER JAY BRUEN married CONSTANCE FIELDER

3. LIVINGSTON BRUEN married ELIZABETH ARCHER

1. ALEXANDRA LOUISA BRUENFifth Generation: Alexandra Louisa Bruen, born 1848. Died 1938. Married George Elmore IDE. They had one child. Both were buried in the Jay Cemetery.

Bio: IDE, George Elmore: Rear-Admiral, U. S. Navy; born in Zanesville, Ohio, Dec. 6, 1845; son of Dr. William E. and Angelina (Sullivan) Ide. He was appointed to the U. S. Naval Academy in 1861, and graduated in 1865. In the summer of 1862 and 1864, while midshipman, cruised after Confederate steamers Tallahassee and Florida; in 1870, went to Greenland on Juniata in search of Polaris survivors, and same year took Virginius filibusters from Santiago, Cuba, to New York. Served on various ships, including the Kenosha, which, in 1871, escorted English battleship Monrach to Portland, Me., carrying remains of George Peabody, philanthropist; commanded steamer Justin off Santiago, during Spanish War; took United States steamer Yosemite to Guam, 1899, carrying governor of island and surveying the harbor, in view of making it a cable and coaling station in 1900; commanded United States steamship New Orleans, on Manila Station; thence to Navy Yard, Mare Island, California, as captain of yard until retired as rear-admiral, Sept. 26, 1901, after forty years’ service. RearAdmiral Ide is a member of the Metropolitan, City, New York Athletic and New York Yacht Clubs of New York City. He married at Fortress Monroe, Va., July 28, 1889, Alexandra Louise Bruen. Address: 1128 Madison Avenue, New York City.

Sixth Generation: Children of ALEXANDRA LOUISA BRUEN and GEORGE ELMORE IDE

1. JOHN JAY IDE married DORA BROWNING DONNER

Sixth Generation. John Jay IDE Birth 26 Jun 1890 in Narragansett Pier, Rhode Island Death 01 Dec 1962 marriage at age 53 to Dora Browning DONNER Birth 18 Oct 1916 in Pennsylvania Death 18 Dec 1998 in San Francisco. They had no children.

Obit: Most people have never heard of John Jay Ide (Jun. 20, 1892-Jan. 12, 1962), who was an international aviation pioneer and European representative for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). Born at Narragansett Pier, Rhode Island, he was the son of Rear Admiral George E. Ide of the U.S. Navy, and Alexandra Bruen Ide. Ide was the great-grandson of John Jay, early national diplomat and first Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.

John Ide attended the Browning School in New York City, and upon graduation from Columbia University in 1913 he received a certificate in architecture. He then studied architecture at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris for the next year before returning to New York to work as an architect. When the United States entered World War in 1917, Ide enlisted in the Naval Reserve Flying Corp and rose to the rank of lieutenant. He also took the opportunity to court and marry Dora Browning Donner of Philadelphia, the daughter of philanthropist and steel financier William Henry Donner when he was 53. With war clouds gathering around the world, in 1940 the U.S. Navy recalled Ide to active duty, commissioning him as a lieutenant commander and placing him in command of the Foreign Intelligence Branch of the Bureau of Aeronautics in Washington. He served in that post until 1943, when the Federal government appointed him a Tactical Air Intelligence Officer in Europe. In this capacity Ide helped to survey at the conclusion of the war in Europe the aeronautical capabilities of the defeated Nazi Germany. Although mustered out of active military duty with the rank of Navy Captain in late 1945, Ide remained in Europe as representative for the NACA for the next five years. There he continued the work he had undertaken in 1921 as a representative for the organization as a conduit for technical information about the development of aviation technology on the continent. He retired from that position in 1950.

John Ide returned to the United States soon after retirement from the NACA, residing in New York City. He was socially prominent in that city, as well as in Washington, D.C., and Palm Beach, Florida. He served in a variety of honorary positions during this period, vice president of the International Aeronautic Federation, president of the International Sporting Commission, board member of the National Aeronautic Association, trustee of the Museum of the City of New York, manager of the American Bible Society, and a vestryman of the St. Bartholomew’s Protestant Episcopal Church in New York.

Ide returned to France in 1958 to present a plaque to commemorate the site in Paris where John Jay participated in the signing of the peace treaty between Britain and the United States in 1783 that ended the American Revolution. He died at his Park Avenue home in New York City on Jan. 12, 1962, at age 69.

He wrote and published a book on the portraits of John Jay.

2. ALEXANDER JAY BRUEN

Fifth Generation. Alexander Jay BRUEN+ Birth abt 1855 in Newport, Rhode Island. Death 25 FEB 1937 in New York, New York, married Constance FIEDLER+ Birth abt 1880 in New Jersey Death 1935 They had three children. They were both buried in the Jay Cemetery.

Alexander Jay Bruen practiced Law at Sullivan and Cromwell. He was a Trustee and acted as treasurer of the Jay Cemetery in the 1960-1990’s. They had no children.

2. EDWARD LIVINGSTON BRUEN

2. Sixth Generation. Edward Livingston BRUEN+* Birth 21 Feb 1913 in New York. Death 23 2004 in Oyster Bay, Nassau, New York, married Marian Natalie Stuyvesant GRAY+ Birth 2 Mar 1912 in Brooklyn, Kings County, New York Death 15 May 2000 in Oyster Bay, Nassau, New York, They are both buried in the Jay Cemetery. They had two children

“Judge Gray’s son, Albert Zabriskie Gray, married Marian Anthon Fish in 1907. They had a daughter, Marian Stuyvesant Gray, who married Edward Fiedler Livingston Bruen in 1942 and had two children: a son, Nicholas Livingston Bruen, who lives in New York, and a daughter, Dr. Marian Anthon Bruen, who married Dr. Charles Ainsworth Staveley Marrin in 1976. They live in Vermont, and have a daughter Minet Anthon Bruen Marrin, who is a Latin teacher. Nicholas, Marian, and Minet are also descendants of John Jay and Robert Livingston.”

3. EVELYN LOUISA BRUEN

Sixth Generation. Evelyn Louisa BRUEN+* Birth 27 Dec 1914 in New City Death May 14, 2001 in Palm Beach, Florida, married John Bond TREVOR+ Jr Birth 4 JUL 1909 in New York, New York Death August 27, 2006 in Paul Smiths, Lake Saranac, Franklin, New York. They were both buried in the Jay Cemetery. They had three children.

Evelyn Trevor was secretary of the Jay Cemetery for many years and meetings were held in their townhouse at 11 East 91st Street.

“When Andrew Carnegie purchased the expansive lot for his mansion across from Central Park in 1899, the neighborhood was still-sparsely developed. Broken rows of brownstone dwellings dotted the streets around East 90th and 91st Streets; but the great mansions of New York’s wealthiest citizens had, for the most part, not advanced beyond 70th Street. A block away from No. 15 East 90th was the mansion of John B. Trevor at No. 11 East 91st Street. Emily Trevor had grown up in that house and in 1926 she acquired the old brownstone at No. 15.

Emily Trevor was, perhaps, not so intrepid as to move to the far East Side; but she did follow suit in her choice of architects and design. Emily, also unmarried, had the old Lawrence house demolished and she commissioned Mott Schmidt to design an up-to-date mansion befitting the neighborhood. Mott created a charming three-and-a-half story neo-Federal home that would have been quite at home on Sutton Place. Clad in Flemish bond red brick, it was trimmed in contrasting white stone. The double entrance doors were sheltered by a refined Corinthian portico that supported an iron-railed balcony at the second floor. Emily moved into the new house in 1929 and in 1931, following his graduation from Columbia College, her bachelor brother John B. Trevor, Jr. joined her. When his engagement to Evelyn Louisa Bruen was announced seven years later, the match made headlines in the society pages.”

Obit: PALM BEACH Fla. Evelyn L. Bruen Trevor, 86, a resident of Palm Beach, Fla., died quietly at her home on May 14, 2001. She was born on Dec. 27, 1914, the fourth and youngest child of Alexander Jay Bruen and Constance Fiedler Bruen. She was a great-great-granddaughter of John Jay, the first chief justice of the United States. She attended the Nightingale School in New York City. She married John B. Trevor Jr. on Nov 18, 1938 in New York City.

Mrs. Trevor and her family were summer visitors to the St. Regis lakes for many years.

Obit BARROW-Constance L.J.B., on 4 October 1997. Beloved wife of the late Donald F. Barrow. Mother of Elizabeth Doering and Constance Hurley. Grandmother of Elizabeth, Dennis and Lily. Sister of the late Alexander J. Bruen, Edward F.L. Bruen and Evelyn B. Trevor. Services on October 10 at 11 AM at St. John’s Church, Cold Spring Harbor. In lieu of flowers, donations to Animal Rescue and Rehabilitation, POB 61, Syosset, New York 11791.